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Development of an Automated Total Nitrosamines (TONO) Analyzer
Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Minju Lee, Woongbae Lee, Yun Ho Lee
Formation of N-Nitrosamines in water and wastewater treatment is of concern due to their high carcinogenic potency, e.g., N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) is estimated to be several hundred times more potent than the regulated trihalomethanes in drinking wate ...
2022Waterborne virus transport and the associated risks in a large lake
Tamar Kohn, Xavier Fernandez Cassi, Chaojie Li, Timothy R. Julian
Waterborne enteric viruses in lakes, especially at recreational water sites, may have a negative impact on human health. However, their fate and transport in lakes are poorly understood. In this study, we propose a coupled water quality and quantitative mi ...
2022Participatory research to monitor lake water pollution
Luc Patiny, Carlos Vivar Rios, Rachel Aronoff
A participatory research team, concerned about water quality around Lake Geneva, particularly in the Montreux Bay region where some were lifeguards, ran sampling campaigns to determine summertime levels of lake water pollution. The participants were brough ...
WILEY2021Presence of sub-inhibitory concentrations of quaternary ammonium compounds in water: effects on bacteria and their inactivation by ozone and monochloramine
Disinfection agents have been present in our daily lives for several decades in detergents or in personal care products, where their role is to prevent the spread of pathogenic microor-ganisms. One of the largest class of disinfection agents is quaternary ...
EPFL2021Adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to constant sub-inhibitory concentrations of quaternary ammonium compounds
Urs von Gunten, Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas, Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Leonardo Venturelli, Myriam Borgatta
Quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs) are widely used in consumer products for disinfection purposes. QACs are frequently detected in aquatic systems at sub-inhibitory concentrations and were found to affect the development of antimicrobial resistance if ba ...
2020Selective, Fast-Response, and Regenerable Metal-Organic Framework for Sampling Excess Fluoride Levels in Drinking Water
Paul Joseph Dyson, Fatmah Ebrahim, Serhii Shyshkanov, Patrick Favre, Kyriakos Stylianou, Ngoc Tú Nguyên, Andrzej Gladysiak
Prolonged consumption of water contaminated with fluoride ions (F-) at concentrations exceeding 1.5 ppm can lead to considerable health implications, particularly in children and developing embryos. With irreversible and potentially severe forms of fluorid ...
2019Performance and User Acceptance of GDM Filters for HWTS in a Rural Community of the Occupied Palestinian Territories
As everybody knows, access to safe water is vital for human beings. It is also considered as a human right to have access to safe drinking water, free from pathogens that can cause illness and death. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), unsafe ...
2019Statistical and physical characterization of rainfall-driven overland flow morphologies
Environmental transport processes are highly coupled with the shape of landscapes.
Modern catchment analysis with high-resolution data and huge computational powers
demand more detailed within-cell metrics for surface evolution modeling. This
dissertation ...
EPFL2019Development of a new simple fluorometric method for total N-nitrosamines analysis in water
N-nitrosamines are known as carcinogenic compounds and arouse today more and more attention as micropollutants and disinfection by-products. Indeed, they were newly found in several drinking waters, wastewaters and greywaters. It was proven that they can f ...
2017Nitrate formation during ozonation as a surrogate parameter for abatement of micropollutants and the N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) formation potential
Urs von Gunten, Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Jun Ma, Yang Song
In this study, nitrate formation from ammonium and/or dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) was investigated as a novel surrogate parameter to evaluate the abatement of micropollutants during ozonation of synthetic waters containing natural organic matter (NOM) ...
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